Engineering
Standard image sensors, like the billion or so already installed in practically every smartphone in use today, capture light intensity and color. Relying on common, off-the-shelf sensor technology—known as CMOS—these ...
Mar 28, 2022
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Engineering
A new study from Swansea University has introduced a framework to calculate the material properties of a new class of two-dimensional curved hexagonal lattices that could be used in the production of improved mechanical metamaterials ...
Nov 30, 2021
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Engineering
Researchers at Kyoto University's Institute for Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS) have developed a new approach to speed up hydrogen atoms moving through a crystal lattice structure at lower temperatures. They reported their ...
Jun 2, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
A new method could enable researchers to fabricate more efficient and longer lasting perovskite solar cells, LEDs and photodetectors. By growing thin perovskite films on substrates with different compositions, engineers at ...
Jan 9, 2020
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Computer Sciences
MIT researchers have developed a novel cryptography circuit that can be used to protect low-power "internet of things" (IoT) devices in the coming age of quantum computing.
Mar 4, 2019
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Engineering
A team of researchers from Imperial College London and the University of Sheffield has developed a way to mimic the attributes of crystal lattices to make stronger 3D printed materials. In their paper published in the journal ...
Jan 17, 2019 report
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Engineering
LED lights and monitors, and quality solar panels were born of a revolution in semiconductors that efficiently convert energy to light or vice versa. Now, next-generation semiconducting materials are on the horizon, and in ...
Jan 15, 2019
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Engineering
A team of researchers have developed an entirely new class of metamaterials that can nearly instantly respond and stiffen 3-D printed structures when exposed to a magnetic field, a development that could be applied to next-generation ...
Dec 12, 2018
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Engineering
Advances in materials engineering have led to the development of lightweight structures that are both strong and stiff, which are transforming aerospace, automotive and medical industries. Conventional manufacturing techniques ...
Mar 9, 2018
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Engineering
Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a lattice structure capable of absorbing a wide range of vibrations while also being useful as a load-bearing component—for example, in propellers, rotors and rockets. It can absorb ...
Jul 29, 2016
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